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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
4
Guidance on decorating a home with balanced color, lighting, and furniture choices. Emphasizes simple lines, harmonious woods, careful lighting, and avoiding over ornate or mismatched elements for lasting appeal. Recommends gradual furniture buying and thoughtful bric a brac selection.
Reed is used extensively for summer furniture and is made up into beds and bureaus as well as hall pieces. The material supports versatile home fittings and showcases its decorative potential.
A plain English educated royal mother sent her two young daughters to Seaford England to be raised by two elderly spinsters who run a boarding school. The girls are now nicknamed the two Greece spots in local chatter.
A new double cushion for wicker chairs fixes the headrest problem by tying two cushions together so one drapes over the back and the other cushions the head. The silk covered cushions with hemmed fringes promise both comfort and decoration, staying in place.
For soreness of feet or numbness of legs, rub a teaspoonful of salt in the palm of each hand then dampen and rub vigorously for a short time before rinsing in clear water.
The article notes blue is often linked to blondes but warns a green tinge in pale blue eyes can be fatal to that shade. It lists Turquoise and many hues including green, mauve, navy, cerise, and black as suitable. It advises pale lemon for evening wear and delicate pink or blue shades for pink or blue complexions.
A stylish slipper bow uses soft silk or satin with three loops each side arranged flat to resemble petals. Loops vary in size with tiny gold beads at ends and across the center. Red slippers pair with velvet or ribbon bows matching the footwear for summer wear.
The piece extols lemon use from morning water to hair rinses and cooking. A few drops in juice or rice water freshens taste, keeps rice white, cleans scalp and hands, and serves as a gentle gargle. It presents lemons as versatile household helpers with practical tips.
Mrs Marbury, missing for over a week while shopping in New York with a sanitarium attendant, reappears at her Locust New Jersey home. Authorities across New York Cleveland Chicago and even Europe were alerted. Relatives gave no explanation for the disappearance and she may have feared joining her sister in law Elizabeth Marbury in Paris.
The Paris prefect of police orders abolition of street organ grinders. Current license holders may remain for now but no new permits will be granted, ending the long standing urban musical sight.
Dialog fragment describes favorable Arctic conditions enabling sound to travel across a mile. Ezbert jokes about how this might let the returned explorer talk more than usual. The exchange playfully ties environment to communication.
Dialogue shows a family discussion about berry placement with admonitions from a mother and a child. The exchange touches on scheme and policy ideas as they decide where to place the small berries.
A business man recalls saving ten minutes traveling from New York to Chicago only to lose the time in a streetcar jam. He, exasperated, calls it a bully moment before the mishap ends.
A white princess with long black gloves and a dramatic hat confides to a young man waiting for a car that she craves watching someone die. He dismisses the idea, but her chilling remark hints at a dangerous fascination with tragedy as they depart.
Washington society debates its envy of Mrs Meyer wife of the Postmaster General as her spring social campaign dazzles Dupont Circle Mayfair and the capital. Report notes her European court triumphs and her hostly scale surpassing most residences outside the White House amid lingering rivalries.
A Washington Post paper like note prank disrupted a Tribune theater night when reporter George Griswold Hill had to climb over a stern gray mustached man to answer a call. The man criticized the gas bill as the cause of the disturbance and the notes shuffled through office copy paper.
A boy picks up orange peel on a street and a passerby plans to give him a meal. Her display of charity fades when the boy uses the peel as a bean shooter and fires at another boy. The moment ends with her companion’s comment and a lighthearted laugh from the father.
A Nevada Legislature act created a state holiday for the Mackay School of Mines dedication and the Borgian statue of John W. Mackay in Reno. Clarence H. Mackay and Mrs. Marie Louise Mackay funded both gifts to the state and university. Gov. Docke son granted them the freedom of the state as a record gesture. Ten thousand people attended the campus service near the Stanford White designed building.
A. H. Wolnd Forbes of New York piloted his own balloon the Conqueror in a five hour forty minute ascent from North Adams Massachusetts to Canton Center Connecticut. Natalie Forbes christened the craft in front of six thousand spectators. Accompanying him were Lea Stevens, and W F. and H J Whitehouse of New York. The balloon carried eighteen hundred pounds of sand ballast. Forbes reported the trip the hardest he had undertaken while Stevens called it the coldest ascension. For much of the journey they remained above the clouds occasionally seeing a rainbow against the sky. They reached altitudes over two miles high and endured bitter cold without overcoats.
A golfer blamed a balloon hovering above the Ashford Manor course for a missed putt during the international balloon race. The quip sparked amusement and a stray aside about Mars life and its eventual extinction as described by Prof. Lowell in Century.
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